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With movements like the latter, it lifts its right leg. It wears a collar with small holes representing studs into which semi-precious stones may have been inserted. Mane is rendered by short, parallel strokes, the tail by long parallel lines. Ears are pricked up, listening, and eyes, nostrils and mouth are delicately rendered.

h. 7.3 cm

2nd-3rd century BC

Bronze

Provenance

Ex collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, prior to 1988
Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries from the above
Ex Heintz Collection, Shelby, Michigan, 1991
Ex Swiss collection, New York
Reacquired by the Royal-Athena Galleries in December 2009
Acquired at Royal-Athena

Publications

J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2011, p. 30, fig. 57
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, France, 2014, p. 104
C. Dauphin, Les Animaux dans le Monde Antique. Le Bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, France, 2016, p. 63, fig. 65 and 93

Exhibitions

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA, 1st January 1991 — 1st January 2009
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Romano-Celtic or Gallo-Roman Bronze Horse

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